Hello Friends,

Missed filing for a couple days due to internet access issues. Sorry!

Looks like a typical spring day in Sydney to me. High in the low 20’s and a NE wind pushing along at 15-20 kts by around lunchtime. There’s a little SSE windswell showing on the MHL buoy, so you might jag something in the waist high range at more exposed spots. However, from the shape of the models, it looks as though it’s going to go just about as quiet in Sydney as here in Santa Barbara over the next week or so. Just not much showing on the charts. With luck it won’t get quite flat…

Have yourself a good one!

(see below for a bit about surf in santa barbara yesterday…)

Tides: Low about 0700, H @1350

Weather Situation from the BoM

A high pressure system over New South Wales extends a ridge over the eastern Tasman Sea. The high is expected to move offshore early Friday and then to move slowly towards New Zealand.
Forecast for Friday until midnight

Winds: East to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots by early evening. Seas: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening. Swell: Southerly about 1.5 metres.
Forecast for Saturday

Winds: East to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Southerly about 1 metre. The chance of thunderstorms offshore from midday, extending throughout during the evening.
Forecast for Sunday

Winds: Northeasterly 15 to 20 knots. Seas: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly about 1.5 metres. The chance of thunderstorms.

In Santa Barbara

Went for a little wave at a place called Deveraux (Coal Oil Point) which is located at the western end of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s bedroom suburb, Isla Vista.

It’s a pretty soft wave but you can go a long way with a mal (which my mate had). Not super crowded and the water wasn’t too chilly (around the 16-17 mark I’d guess). Lot of kelp in the line up, so you’d get these little fin hangs that could be enough to stall you out of the fairly feeble little NW swell. Still, managed to get a few, so that’s all to the good…